Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aims can sometimes seem incompatible--such as when University policies of confidentiality clash with the public access usually granted to law-enforcement actions, or when Harvard's in loco parentis role comes into conflict with common police practices...
...company. We have no idea what he did or didn't do, but is quite possible that his drinking had something, if not everything, to do with his being fired at the age of fifty-five..But the dire implications of the firing produced in Scott an enduring conflict of feeling about his father...
...year as an adviser to a Chinatown bank that paid him $18,000. Bradley also earned at least $70,000 as a director of a savings and loan bank for ten years. Although both matters were on public record and on the surface did not seem to represent a conflict of interest, the facts beneath the surface suggested otherwise. It turns out that city deposits in the Chinatown bank were doubled after Bradley made a phone call to the Los Angeles treasurer. The savings and loan bank, meanwhile, was involved in a multimillion-dollar tax dispute with the city...
...long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event. But everywhere I went in the world where there were black people, somebody said, What about the blacks and Asians? What do you think about the blacks and the Mexicans? Or, in New York at one time, blacks and Puerto Ricans? The only common denominator is blacks...
...world has been waiting to discover what attitude the new U.S. Administration would adopt toward the extraordinary events in the Soviet Union. Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze have continued their odysseys through world capitals, proclaiming the promise of perestroika and the end of ideological conflict. All the while, the White House has turned away questions -- whether from allies, Soviets or the American press -- with the explanation that a sweeping policy review was under...